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Efficient $\mathbb{Z}_2$ synchronization on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ under symmetry-preserving side information

Probability 2021-06-07 v1 Information Theory math.IT Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-synchronization on the Euclidean lattice. Every vertex of Zd\mathbb{Z}^d is assigned an independent symmetric random sign θu\theta_u, and for every edge (u,v)(u,v) of the lattice, one observes the product θuθv\theta_u\theta_v flipped independently with probability pp. The task is to reconstruct products θuθv\theta_u\theta_v for pairs of vertices uu and vv which are arbitrarily far apart. Abb\'e, Massouli\'e, Montanari, Sly and Srivastava (2018) showed that synchronization is possible if and only if pp is below a critical threshold p~c(d)\tilde{p}_c(d), and efficiently so for pp small enough. We augment this synchronization setting with a model of side information preserving the sign symmetry of θ\theta, and propose an \emph{efficient} algorithm which synchronizes a randomly chosen pair of far away vertices on average, up to a differently defined critical threshold pc(d)p_c(d). We conjecture that pc(d)=p~c(d) p_c(d)=\tilde{p}_c(d) for all d2d \ge 2. Our strategy is to \emph{renormalize} the synchronization model in order to reduce the effective noise parameter, and then apply a variant of the multiscale algorithm of AMMSS. The success of the renormalization procedure is conditional on a plausible but unproved assumption about the regularity of the free energy of an Ising spin glass model on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02111,
  title  = {Efficient $\mathbb{Z}_2$ synchronization on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ under symmetry-preserving side information},
  author = {Ahmed El Alaoui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02111},
  year   = {2021}
}

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51 pages, 2 figures

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